Clothes-hook.



Patented Sept. 26, |899. G. W. TURNER.

l CLOTHES HOOK.

(Appumon med rnb. a, 1899.)

(No Model.)

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'UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE IV. TURNER, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

CLOTHES-HOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 633,742, dated September 26, 1899.

Application led February 3, 1899. Serial No. 704,402. (No model.)

To rtl/f whom it may concern: opened in the proper manner. By means of Beit known that I, GEORGE VST. TURNER, a the extension A6 below the pivotal point and citizen of the United States, residing at San accessible through the opening B3 a pressure 55 Francisco, in the county of San Francisco and here throws the hook A again into operative 5 State of Oalifornia,have invented certain new position.

and useful Improvements in Clothes-Hooks; Hooks constructed in accordance with this and I do hereby declare the following to be a invention are desirable where space is limited full, clear, and exact description of said inand sightliness an object. In closets it is 6o vention, such as will enable others skilled in sometimes difiicult to hang a garment xo the art to which it most nearly appertains to smoothly by reason of the adjacent hooks inmake, use, and practice the same. terfering.' lVhere the' old style hooks are This invention relates to improvements in used or in narrow passages, Where space is clothes-hooks; andit consists of the novel conlimited, a row of protruding hooks not in use 65 struction and arrangement of the parts, as are unsightly and awkward, whereas with my i5 hereinafter set forth. inventionthe hooks are set in flush with the The object sought to be accomplished is to surface and extended only when in use. provide a hook which is iiush with the sur- In construction any suitable metal may be face of the wall and out of the way until deused,the caseBbeingcast or otherwiseformed 7o sired for use. Y and the front plate Bzand the caseB being inzo In the drawings, Figure lis acentral vertegral. Extending from the sides of the case tical section. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of B is the boss B5, which acts as a stop for the the invention, the hook being in closed posihook when closed, the pins C', by which the tion. Fig. 3 is a detail in side elevation of the spring O issecured in position, and the bosses 75 hook. Fig. 4 is a detail in front elevation of B7, to which the cover for the case B is se- 2 5 the hook. cured by screws. l

In the description with reference to the Havingthus described thisinvention, what drawings to the hook will be assigned the disis claimed istinguishing-letter A and to the casing there- In aclothes-hanger,a casinghaving an open- 8o for the letter B. These letters will be furing in the wall thereof, asubstantially trian= 3o ther strengthened by the addition of numegular plate pivoted at one of its cornerswithin rals thereto in referring to the related parts the casing and having one of its sides pro thereof. vided with a hook adapted to extend through The invention is particularly adapted as a the casing, the portion of the plate on the side 85 hat and coat rack, the extension A being of the pivot opposite the hook being accessi- 3 5 made to extend farther from the wall to acble through the opening when the plate is in-Y coinmodate the hat, while the shorter extenclosed in the casing, shoulders upon the plate sion A2 answers for the coat. The hook A is adapted to engage the casing on the sides of made substantially triangular in shape and the opening and limit the out-ward movement 9o pivoted at its lower corner on a pin B in the of the plate, a boss in the casing and adapted 4o case B. Formedin the face-plate B2 ofthe case to limit the inward movement of the plate, a B is the opening B3, through which the hook spring fastened to the casing and bearing extends. To prevent the hook A extending upon a suitable portion of the plate to hold outward too far, the shoulders A3 A3 are prothe same in desired positions, and pins upon 95 vided to engage the sides of the opening B3. the casing on opposite sides of the spring;

45 To maintain the hook in its two positions, substantially as described.

(open and closed,) thespring O is provided. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set This, acting against the extension A4 slightly my hand this 27th day of October, 1898.

above the pivotal point, holds the hook outward. When the hook is forced back into the GEORGE W' BURNER' 5o case B, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. l, the W'itnesses:

spring takes action in the depression A5 and GEORGE R. LITTLEFIELD, prevents the extension of the hook unless A. D. DANIONA. 

